Excel found running in background without me starting it #731

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opened 2026-02-20 14:24:30 -05:00 by deekerman · 0 comments

deekerman commented 2026-02-20 14:24:30 -05:00

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Originally created by @alokin166s on GitHub (Sep 3, 2025).

Is this intended activity or something else, when i tried to shutdown system i found out that excel is supposedly still running in background and indeed it was but i did not start it. Office 2016 was installed and activated via Ohook from https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.
It only used 2mb of data, same thing with word and office click to run.

Sorry if this is dumb question, just wanted to make sure my system is not compromised.

Originally created by @alokin166s on GitHub (Sep 3, 2025). Is this intended activity or something else, when i tried to shutdown system i found out that excel is supposedly still running in background and indeed it was but i did not start it. Office 2016 was installed and activated via Ohook from https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media. It only used 2mb of data, same thing with word and office click to run. Sorry if this is dumb question, just wanted to make sure my system is not compromised.

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